H[oratio] Walpole [afterwards Baron Walpole, of Woolterton,] Ambassador to France, to the Duke of Newcastle, introducing “Mr. Voltaire, a Poet, and a very ingenious one, who is lately gone for England to print by subscription an excellent Poem called Henry y e 4th”; Paris, 29 May, 1726.
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H[oratio] Walpole [afterwards Baron Walpole, of Woolterton,] Ambassador to France, to the Duke of Newcastle, introducing “Mr. Voltaire, a Poet, and a very ingenious one, who is lately gone for England to print by subscription an excellent Poem called Henry y e 4th”; Paris, 29 May, 1726.
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Letter from Horatio Walpole, Ambassador of France, to the Duke of Newcastle, written from Paris and dated 29 May 1726.
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Walpole writes to introduce Voltaire, whom he describes as ‘a Poet, and an ingenious one, who is lately gone for England to print by subscription an excellent Poem called Henry ye 4th’.
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